Data delivery process
Data delivery from ESPON Service Providers requires: (1) coordination between several Parties (workflow) (2) delivery systems and templates and (3) instructions sent to ESPON Service Providers. The whole process shall take no longer than eight weeks. It should ideally start at the delivery of the draft final report of the project. The Figure 7 provides the general timeline for the delivery.
Figure1: Timeline of project data delivery
The “overview table”: ensuring a common understanding of the delivery content
The delivery is performed through the ESPON 2020 Upload interface (see Section 5.2). The entire process is monitored via an “overview table”. The overview table relates maps and figures of the draft final report to indicators, which are then assigned a status (‘key’, background’, ‘other’). This table is then used as a tracking tool to validate the completion of a projects delivery (See exemple in Figure 8). The interactive process between ESPON EGTC (project experts), the Services provider and the Database team, as well as all steps of the delivery process, are described in detail in the online documentation.
Figure 2: Data Delivery - Overview Table
Projects whose data delivery was supported
The following following projects were supported to upload data in the ESPON 2020 Database (Table 1).
Table 1: Data upload - supported projects
Applied research (SO1) | Targeted analysis (SO2) | Monitoring and tool (SO3) |
LOCATE | SPIMA | Big Data and Housing |
FUTURES | LinkPAS | TIA UPGRADE |
SME | MIGRATUP | FUORE |
EMPLOY | Alps2050 | EMTMT |
FDI | CPS | |
PROFECY | HERITAGE | |
GRETA | BIG DATA CBC | |
COMPASS | URRUC | |
BRIDGES | TEVI | |
YUTRENDS | MSP-LSI | |
Financial Instruments | BT2050 | |
CIRCTER | ENSURE | |
ETRF | SHARING | |
MIGRARE | ACPA | |
T4 | TIA CBC |
Training for data reviewers
In order to improve the capacity of the team to guide and support ESPON projects into their delivery, reviewers need to be properly trained. Therefore a training workshop has been designed and implemented to ensure that reviewers have adequate capacities to guide Service providers in their delivery.
The workshop is structured in three parts and may be implemented in one day (8 hours):
- Introduction to the main concepts associated with data delivery;
- Presentation of the tools that were prepared to ensure collaboration among reviewers: the “reviewers toolbox” and the “monitoring file”;
- Exercises based on actual ESPON data
The participation to a training session is crucial for the reviewers to understand the main challenges associated with data collection and to ensure the integrity of the data delivery. This is why, the training is subject to an internal certification. All reviewers appointed to support projects shall attend a training session. Training materials are made available as an internal “toolbox” in the online documentation.